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New iPhone version of Google Reader
We don’t need more information or aggregation, we need inspiration
SenseArray - a unique new type of recommendation engine (also known as a collaborative filter), software that determines a user’s interests based on behavioral information collected about that user. This can then be used to tailor your website to the individual [...]
- Kevin Burton on scaling MySQL
Kevin Burton has posted his slides from the MySQL conference. It’s based on his blog aggregator, Spinn3r which uses MySQL in write-heavy processes instead of the usual read path.
- Shell History
Since everyone else is doing it:
a21772:~ jlucas$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
126 rake
121 svn
69 vi
57 ./script/console
21 ./script/server
17 cd
15 ssh
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- Some Thoughts on the Google App Engine
Everyone talked about the App Engine yesterday and folks seem to go in either of the extremes of loving it or hating it. I’ve seen conspiracy theories about giving Google access to your data but also how this could be the start of many simple applications that wouldn’t see the light of day without [...]
- Performance and Architecture Conferences
Looks like an action-packed couple of days at the end of June up in the Bay. First, there’s the O’Reilly Velocity conference and then on the 25th is Structure ‘08 conference. I’m not sure if I can go to either of them but they should be interesting.
- No Architects Need Apply
So no, we don’t hire architects. We hire developers. In a small team, there is no room for management deadwood. Everybody pays their own freight. The more senior you are, the more you get to help and coach and mentor others. Leading means enabling others to do their job and make good decisions on their [...]
- Starling
Blaine Cook from Twitter released Starling last week. He describes it as:
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter’s backend, and is in production across Twitter’s cluster.
I’m always a sucker for new infrastructure code but the problem is trying to figure out how to [...]
- topics.latimes.com
We launched something officially this week, http://topics.latimes.com. It actually went out mid-December but it isn’t official until it was linked to from the main Entertainment section, which was given a facelift in case you didn’t notice.
- Vendor/Gems and Rake
Today, I hit a little bump along the road of having a nice, simple checkout/run path in the Rails project I’m working on. The problem occurs when you don’t have a gem installed on the system, instead unpacking it into vendor/gems. In order for those to be included in the environment, you need [...]
- A Case of the Mondays
Everyone knows you’ll have bad days but the good thing is that they generally don’t happen too often. If they did, you’d have a tough time getting out of bed each day, heading to the office. Today though was a bad day. Mistakes were made last week and the bill came due [...]
